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How do I fix my home screen search bar location? [migrated]
On my iPhone, when I search from my home screen with the new update the search bar is above the keyboard and not top of the screen. Since it is on the home screen search and not Safari, for example, ...
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What's the best way to display multiple tags/labels in a table row?
We have screen in our application which displays all files uploaded. Each file is able to be assigned tags (as many as needed) which can help with filter and search. Tagging is assigned via the ...
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Is a slight icon inconsistency ok if the icons are clear?
So I am designing something that will tell the user whether something is online or offline. The problem is, I cant decide on a final design for my icons. The various designs look better on different ...
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How to inform user they canot remove an element?
So I am working on a software for repair and maintenance companies right now. We are going to have a customer database.
Once you add a customer to the database, you can only remove them if there are ...
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Hide premium features/content or show+lock them?
We are currently building a learning platform that has two membership tiers. Let’s call them basic and premium.
With premium you get quite a bit more features and access to additional content.
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How to deal with jumps in a navigation flow?
Say you have features A and B with following pages:
A: List -> Detail -> Edit
B: List -> Detail -> Edit
On page Edit (B) you have a dropdown to select a record of type A. You might want ...
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View state (read only) for checkboxes and radio buttons
Let's say there's a panel with some information in a View state. If the user engages its Edit mode, everything becomes interactive. Some of the interactive components are checkboxes and radio buttons.
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Human readable Timespan 'ONE MONTH' use 30 days, 28 days or 31?
In an app that measures timespans, I want to express the overall value in a human-readable form.
Let's say we are measuring the time a machine runs, idles, is in standby or off.
The times are measured ...
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What's the name of the greater than indicator after the sender name in the iOS Mail app?
is there a name for the small "greater than" sign used as indicator in Apple Mail on iOS?
Thank you in advance :)
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How to display [missing text] in a form
After a form is saved and displayed, I want to show a placeholder if a field was left empty, so that the user reading it understands that it is not a UI issue.
Example:
Name: Jeff
Surname: –
Mail:...
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Validation after closing or saving a modal
all the modal pop-ups that I see after I click close or save, there is no confirmation that the action is completed. Is that necessary?
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What's the workflow for Designers & Product people to work together?
I'm wondering what's the ideal workflow you've found working for your team and how you guys do it.
Most of the companies I work with have the design team under product (e.g., designers report to the ...
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How to design with toggle options under a form that enable a feature
So I am designing a form where the user enters in an ip address and can either use just the IP address, enter in a range, or a netmask. My initial thought was to grey out the second form on the "...
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How do you show multiple error messages specific per row of an XML import?
Currently, I'm working on an import function to migrate users from one system to our system.
I've checked the post input, and there is a possibility that there can be 39 error messages per person. In ...
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How to Find Participants for Usability Studies? [duplicate]
How can I solve the problem of finding participants for usability study testing for my UX project, in case I can't find someone from the people I know?
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What is the most popular shortcut used for custom in-page search on a web site?
I am looking to use javascript to trigger focus on a search field inside a web page when a keyboard shortcut is pressed.
People dislike it when ctrl-f is overridden, because it prevents the user from ...
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How to design a complex process with 15 steps
I designed a web form using a wizard approach and my product owner liked it. Unfortunately, they now want to use the wizard for everything. Our next screens have over 15 steps and each step is pretty ...
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Automated Machinery with On/Off states and Auto On/Off states
Background and question
There's been a few discussions around clearly showing to users on/off and auto states. However, I'd like to focus on automated controls in the context of machinery with moving ...
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What is the name of the type of menu used for Slack emoji reactions on mobile?
What is the correct term for the type of menu that is used for Slack's emoji reaction picker on mobile devices? The menu comes up from the bottom, can be pulled further up to the top of the page, and ...
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Hiding and showing menu items in an application based on state
I have an interface with a list of menu items which will take a user to different product features. The features a categorized as follows:
Feature' access is controlled with user role (roles don't ...
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Are there any right hand dominant alternatives to Dvorak keyboard layouts that are about as old as Dvorak?
Dvorak is unique in that it is right hand dominant.
Are there any keyboard layouts that are similar in that way that are about the same age to Dvorak(1936) by August Dvorak?
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Should 'Other' be a text field or a radio button plus text field
Hi! There's a discussion around whether 'Other' should be a radio button at the end of these options, where an input field then allows you to type in the company formation type.
The first few radio ...
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How do I streamline an expensive non-realtime search?
What I'd like to build is a service that compares prices of rather specific goods.
These goods must be looked up on an external website I do not own in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible (for ...
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Registration Portal UX with many steps & complex requirements - Best practices & good examples?
I'm designing a web-based registration portal. There is a long list of requirements people need to get ready before they can successfully register. The research indicates that many new applicants are ...
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Are extra close buttons still necessary for desktop applications?
Many desktop applications provide extra close buttons, usually in the bottom right corner of windows or panels. I understand showing extra cancel and stop buttons, but not close.
In many cases, there ...
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What is the best way to collect the relevant fields for a UI screen?
I understand that most of this data comes from the user story/use case/PRD etc.
But how do we make sure that the fields (KPIs/Status/Properties/Charts etc) that we display are the ideal ones for the ...
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How do you define input length?
I'm working on an online banking website and its design system.
UI designers tend to want all form input elements to be the same size so that everything is perfectly aligned. I've explained that the ...
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What's the consensus on Top vs Left Navigation logged in vs logged out?
So for my companies website, which is for a finTech product, our logged out view has a classic header with all the key pages spaced along the top. However once logged in, which gives access to our ...
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How to show that an item in a form is dependent on the previous item
So I am designing a system where you can group different items together. A VNET is a group of edge devices, and in order to get the "TNI/Addr", you need to first select the VNET. I added ...
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How to improve UX for multiple buttons which are in one place with different functionality
I am working with a web application, there is a case to use 4 different buttons in one place with different functionalities. I think adding all the buttons in one place leads users see awkward and may ...
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Best Practices for Downloadable Free Guide Pages
My company wants to increase leads through free guides whereby a user completes a form and is then given access to downloadable content.
The page features information of what is in the guide and a ...
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How to match/reconcile Material recommendations for the TextField with the actual practices of ERP forms - narrower and without top label?
From the one side there are Material recommendations/implementations for the TextField https://material.io/components/text-fields#anatomy (and https://m3.material.io/components/text-fields/overview is ...
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When performing a bulk edit on a table, how should changing the filter on the table, affect previous selections?
If a user wants to "bulk edit" a table and makes some row selections, then changes the filter during selection, should rows that have been previously selected (but can no longer be seen ...
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What is the best approach for UI kit? [closed]
I have a dilemma at work and that is that we have many types of buttons: filled and lined black, light blue, dark blue in different shapes, round and rectangular with slightly rounded edges. We also ...
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Multi Selection Processing Status UI/UX
UI Case
UI allows a multi-select option. There is no limit to multi-selection. Users can select from one up-to item in the range of millions.
Processing flow
When the User triggers an action based on ...
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Best UX/UI for displaying a list of email addresses
I'm creating a component for a web app, and I'm looking for some advice on how to build a good UI, also considering UX.
this is an inbox page, so this page is a web email client. This app is not ...
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Breadcrumbs with action menu - what are the best practices?
I am curious about best practices for visualizing additional actions in breadrumbs.
Details: the user should be able to copy the IDs of the elements from the breadcrumbs.
Is it a good way to add such ...
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Correct example, incorrect example (true/false box) as div, what aria to use?
so on website I'm building I have these div blocks, one block is for "correct example", and the other is for "Incorrect examples" (like Info & warning kinda thing)
I have the ...
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Web application: showing information with form format
In the place I work (not a company) there's a team developing a Web app. In it, retrieved data information (a school) from a search is displayed as follows:
As you can see they are using form format ...
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computer feels laggy running linux but okay with windows 10 don't know why? [migrated]
Processor AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 3.90 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.20 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch ...
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Handling tags that can be automatic, public, or private?
I'm building a webapp where I want content to be taggable in a few different ways:
Public system-added tags. Non-removable tags added automatically when content is created based on how it was created
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How to write an accessible error message for a required radio button group form element?
I have a radio button group as follows:
"Do you have any pets?"
Radio options:
"yes" or "no"
If an option is not selected, and the user submits the form, then an error ...
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Greying out disabled items that can be enabled vs items that cannot be enabled
so I am working on a device management system and to add a new device to a group you must input some info into a form. Some items, you must click a check box in order to enable the dropdown, while ...
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Why should "forgot password" page open in the same tab?
I am tasked with making the login functionality for a website. Only working on the UI for now. The "forgot password" page asks for the user's email address, sends it to the backend, which ...
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Heuristic Evaluation of an Electric Vehicle [duplicate]
I am looking for a methodology for Heuristic validation/testing of electric vehicle driver touch points. Not specific to digital features (cluster, touch radio display, etc.) but also physical ...
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How to prevent MacBook users from accidentally triggering the back functionality when scrolling a page horizontally? [closed]
I'm working on a desktop screen that contains a table with many columns. This causes the screen to have horizontal scrolling.
When MacBook users use the trackpad to scroll horizontally, the MacBook ...
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Should help articles be part of the program itself or be available online?
We are creating a web tool and one of the functionalities are not very clear for a small percentage of the users. So far, we have implemented very simple one-sentence long on-hover tooltips. Yet, a ...
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How to indicate some items of a long list are hidden by the user?
When creating a new database, there are system tables that vary depending on which type of database and whether using a third party service or not. These system tables are often not used, and in some ...
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Should fields labels also be clickable?
I know it's a good UX practice to make radios/checkboxes labels clickable (because radios/checkboxes are usually a bit small) but I have serious doubts over the practice of also making fields labels ...
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Is Balloon popup for mobile apps common?
Our mobile app has a screen with a button that updates a price when the user takes a picture.
In order to clarify any doubt that a user may have about the button, I want to add a description somewhere ...
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